Satoshi Nagasaki

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Satoshi Nagasaki started playing guitar at age 11. His influences were Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, and Van Halen. He started paying in a local band at age 13.
Satoshi spent a year studying music at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California and after graduation in 1993 started working as a guitar instructor at two music schools in Japan. He also hosted Purple Express, a Japan-wide radio program.

Satoshi worked together with Japanese guitar legend Shigeru Narumo with whom he conducted numerous guitar clinics at music stores across Japan. He also worked as Hamer and Ovation USA endorsee. For three years Satoshi free-lanced for Shinko Music, a Japanese guitar magazine writing articles, transcriptions and interviewing other musicians. He has published over 20 guitar instructional books and CDs in his home country.

Satoshi's guitar style was featured on the Spotlight page of the July 1996 issue of the Guitar Player magazine. For all of 1997 Satoshi toured Canada as a lead guitar player for Broken Rule, a Montreal-based pop/hard rock band.
In 98 to 2002, Satoshi played and recorded with many musicians in Toronto and the United States such as The Belle Jars (Punk Rock,) Geoff Mcpeek (Sony Recording Artist), Jessica Ehrenworth (Pop rock recording Artist), Fried Zuccini (Top 40), Gord X (Blues), Janet Vodka (Rock Band from NYC), Super chick (Top 40 female band), Johnny Alternative, Hot for Teacher (Van Halen Tribute) and The Honey Brown (Soul/Funk), e. t. c....